Vampire Vocab

Inspired by Rebecca Kling’s Three Questions on Blogher, I’m writing this post. 1. What do you love? I love Piven. I love the feeling that I’m changing things with my words, that the clearly defined line between mind and body are blurring, and power emerges from the tearing out of that cocoon. I love that, [...]

Ok, so I didn’t do so poorly, driving yesterday in a cemetery, of all places. In fact, for my first half hour of driving ever, it may have been pretty good. I’m not sure because Daddy insists that he won’t give me anything to compare against. I.e. He won’t tell me how I did relative [...]

Denise’s iPhone 4s…So. Incredibly. COOL.

Memories. My daddy has given me so many memories, beautiful memories, and more every day. I remember nights of collecting lots of books and sitting down, eager to hear Daddy read me each one. I remember trips, lots of trips, Incredible trips, from the snow-capped Whistler mountain to the heat of Tanzania. I remember learning [...]

It’s been one of those days.

I would write a poem for New Orleans. But I’d feel like that would be selling out. Letting details slip away as words do.   I would write a poem for New Orleans. A poem of destruction and rebirth but I can’t find words.   I would write a poem for New Orleans. Of drunken [...]

Today’s word is: Inanition (n) Emptiness, the state of being empty When all his Dolce & Gabbana clothes were destroyed, the vampire felt as though there would never be anything again but inanition.

Here’s a word that I love: Meable (adj.) Easily penetrable. The vampire’s defenses were meable. He had, after all, spent all his money on clothes.

And today’s word is: Invidious: (adj.) Provoking envy or ill will. The vampire’s snazzy, invidious clothes were the primary reason the villagers had decided to come stake him.

Today’s word is: Cyrenaic (adj.) Hedonistic, pertaining to hedonism. Sentence: Despite the reputation vampire’s have for being either moody or cyrenaic, the vampire who worked at the grocery store was neither. He was just…normal.